Wedding banquets are an important part of wedding ceremonies in China. If someone is going to get married, he/she usually asks his/her relatives, friends and colleagues to attend a banquet in honor of such an event. Simon attended his friend Lily's wedding ceremony at the weekend and talks about it with Da Wei.

In Chinese, "门(mén)" (door or gate) is usually used to refer to a family's social status. In Da Wei's reply, "豪门(háo mén )" refers to a rich and powerful family. Da Wei says he heard Lily married a big shot and joined a rich family, but Simon denies this using the Chinese idiom "门当户对(mén dāng hù duì)" to do so, which means the families are well-matched in terms of social status.

Both "嫁 (jià)" and "娶 (qǔ)" mean "marry" in Chinese, but their usages are quite different. We only say: 新娘嫁给了新郎 (The bride marries the bridegroom)，新郎娶了新娘(The bridegroom marries the bride)。Therefore, we use "嫁" when explaining that a women has married a man, and "娶" to explain that a man has married a woman. In the last sentence, "归宿(guī sù )", which means "final destination", is only used when talking about women and is often used to refer to a woman' s husband.

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